Meaning of WATER FLEA
| Pronunciation: | | 'wotur flee
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- [n] minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae
- [n] minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms
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| | Synonyms: | | cyclops, daphnia |
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| | See Also: | | branchiopod, branchiopod crustacean, branchiopodan, copepod, copepod crustacean, genus Cyclops, genus Daphnia | |
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| | Definition: | | \Wa"ter flea`\ (Zo["o]l.)
Any one of numerous species of small aquatic Entomostraca
belonging to the genera {Cyclops}, {Daphnia}, etc; -- so
called because they swim with sudden leaps, or starts.
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